How's that song go again? Deck the halls with boughs of BlackBerry. Fa la la la la la? That sounds about right... Well, expect hear that version a lot over the next few months, because BlackBerry has released a stunning array of phones for the holiday season. Which is why we've been featuring the whole pantheon of…

A chip analyst for Collins Stewart, John Vinh, believes that RIM "has stopped production of its PlayBook and is actively considering exiting the tablet market." Why? According to his research, the PlayBook's manufacturer, Quanta, has "essentially halted production of the tablet." Updated

As well as Best Buy, Staples and OfficeMax, Sprint is now selling the 16GB Wi-Fi version of the PlayBook, for $500. This comes as a new software update was pushed out yesterday, pre-loading the Facebook app and adding an in-app payment system plus Wi-Fi hotspot detection. You mean to tell me these features weren't…

...Will this put you off purchasing one? According to RIM, " approximately one thousand BlackBerry PlayBook tablets (16 GB) were shipped with an OS build that may result in the devices being unable to properly load software upon initial set-up."

This is how Android apps are going to look on the BlackBerry Playbook. The apps run via the Playbook's Android App Player and from the looks of it, isn't a bad experience at all. Regardless of how you feel about BlackBerry relying on another platform for apps, offering this feature gives Playbook users more options.…

At BlackBerry's big conference today, they forced everyone to don 3D glasses and check out the 3D content that the Astonishing Tribe guys (remember them?) have created for their PlayBook tablet. I know, I know, here you were thinking BlackBerry had all but nixed the 3D ride.

You guyzzz, BlackBerry's PlayBook tablet can also do video-calls! It's only over Wi-Fi, but considering that's the only model that's actually on sale now, I think we can live with that. From tomorrow, PlayBook owners can download it over-the-air through an update, or by checking into the BlackBerry App World.

Look, 50,000 units sold isn't too bad (especially when you consider the reviews urged customers to wait), but when you compare it to the first-gen iPad's 300,000 sold on opening day, that's not many either way you look at it. Apparently 25,000 of those PlayBooks were sold through pre-orders. [Economic Times via …

In typical form, iFixit went and kaboomed the BlackBerry PlayBook. IT HAS A SCREEN. IT ALSO HAS A BATTERY. YOU SEE THAT THING?! (If you want to replace it, you'll have to remove the glued-in motherboard). [iFixit via CrunchGear]

For some silly reason, AT&T is not supporting BlackBerry Bridge—the lifeline of the BlackBerry PlayBook. Remember, in order for the PlayBook to access email, contacts, and calendars, it needs to be "bridged" to a BlackBerry via the BlackBerry Bridge app. Without access to BlackBerry Bridge, AT&T is effectively…

You can saunter on in to Best Buy, OfficeMax or Staples today, or surf over to RIM's site now, and pick up the 16GB Wi-Fi PlayBook tablet for $500, or the 32GB model for $600 or even the 64GB model for an extra hundred notes. Don't forget that the 3G and 4G models will be coming later in the year, along with Android…

Promising that "we will have an over the air email client to announce very very soon," RIM Co-CEO Jim Balsillie also spoke of the reaction to the PlayBook tablet in the first wave of reviews. Labelling that it wasn't "fair" reviewers suggested they rushed the tablet out too fast, he also failed to convince the watcher…

According to Digitimes, the PlayBook shipments has been postponed by a month due to the heavy strain factories in Taiwan were/are facing thanks to the iPad 2. Digitimes wrote that "sources from touch screen panel makers also pointed out that PlayBook shipments were postponed for about a month from the original…

Pine away no more, for the 16GB Wi-Fi version of the BlackBerry PlayBook can be ordered for $500 at Best Buy from...now! Or it's $600 for 32GB or $700 for 64GB. In other words, it's the first tablet to match the iPad's pricing, toe-to-toe. Which is impressive. And it's coming out April 19.